Leonid Davidenko

13.04.1938-11.01.2016

Leonid N. Davydenko was born on 13 APR 1938 in Kyiv in the family of workers.
Despite living a seemingly \"prestigious\" neighborhood, a family was in need, childhood and boyhood of the future poet and artist were spent in poverty and hunger. Then war, evacuation, returning home, orphanage...

Poetry began to write early, even in adolescence. Began to be published in 1964.
Wrote in Russian and Ukrainian languages.
More than 12 original books saw the light during the poet\'s lifetime.

In 1999, all of a sudden, himself picked up a brush and began to paint. He was an incredible workaholic for 14 years wrote more than 2,000 paintings! He worked for people, for his people, and could have done still very, very much, but the insidious, incurable disease ended his life on the rise of creative forces, in mid-sentence. On 11 January 2016 of the Poet and Artist did not.
Many of his paintings began a new life in America, Israel, Russia.